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Show ACTRESS MILLIONAIRES. The United SUtta can tioait thru actreaiet whoie aggrcgile fortuuet amount, at a moderate estimate, to IC,. 000,000 each. Of then Mlu Crablree, SMa la loan, MtHlaV-m-r Vaao " n t. aa,, aa. , than half, n fortune which ylitda her 1300,000 a year, Bhe owns properly In Boston alone which la worth a million dollars and she baa also a substantial slake In nearly all the leading cities ot the slates, from Nsw York to Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, The remarkable thing about this coloaaal fortune la that Lolta owes every ev-ery penny of It to her own Industry and thrift. Her father was a small coal dealer on Rtatcn Island, and her name. "Crablree," waa associated only with coalt told by tin hundredweight Lot-ta'a Lot-ta'a neareit rival In wealth among fot lowers ot the ttage la Maggie Mitchell, who li a millionaire In dcllan two and a half tlmei over. Her large fortune waa due In the flnt place to an accident acci-dent Bhe waa filling minor parta In a St Louis theater, when that moat popular play, "Kanebon, the Crlcktt,"-fell Crlcktt,"-fell Into the hand! of the leader ot the orcheitra. He thought It peculiarly aulted to tho gift ot the promising )oung actress, and forthwith adapted It for her. The play proved a veritable gold mine to the lucky aclrrsi, and iha Is said to have made half a million from It alone. Mils I'anny Davenport, who formr ths third In tblt trinity ot wealthy actnsses, laid the foundation of her fortune twenty yrara ago, when she came under Mr. Daly'a auspices, Hor great beauty, aa well aa bar clever ictlng, mado her tbo rage for many yuan, during which ihe acted Sardou'a playa to entliuslsstlo houses. Unlike many actresses, she waa at thrifty as she was fortunate, and Invested her savings sav-ings In real estate In Chicago and Denver, Den-ver, which It now of an estimated value of 1(00,000. In addition to thla tub-itantlal tub-itantlal fortune, tho posuei.es Jewelry worth 1100.000. |